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" I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. "

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" Politics is not really my thing. "

" I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere. "

" If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. "

" I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. "

" Most filmmakers' entire body of knowledge is of other movies. When they describe things, they describe them in relation to other movies. That's why we have so many cyclical movies that look like other movies. But I'm not cynical. I even go to some of those movies. "

" I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. "

" I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can. "

" Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? "

" I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things. "

" My father was an exceptionally strong influence on me. "

" If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything. "

" People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. "

" I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity. "

Self-Discipline

" I know fashion can be intensely goofy, but it is something I've always taken pretty seriously. "

" It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. "

" My father was a very contradictory man. "

" I don't remember my life before I had children. "

" I'm not a control maniac. "

" I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character. "

" In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat. "

" There's a reason screens are only this thick. "

" I have at times spoken with my peers and the head of the actors' union about why we're not paid when we appear in, say, a 'TMZ' production, but there seems to be no real interest in combatting it. "

" I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people. "

" Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not. "

" Anybody doing something brings something to it. "

" I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott. "

" I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years. "

" When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it. "